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  • Sir Richard Steele I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • George Washington I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Vera Brittain I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Ulysses S. Grant I know only two tunes. One them is ''Yankee Doodle'' and the other isn't.
    Ulysses S. Grant
    American Army general (1822 - 1885)
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  • Albert Einstein I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • August Wilson I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.
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  • Arthur Miller I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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  • Aaliyah I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Lord George Byron I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Armistead Maupin I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • William James I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Georges Bernanos I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Aldous Huxley I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Joan Didion I know what nothing means, and keep on playing.
    Play it as it Lays (1970)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • John Gay I know you lawyers can, with ease, I twist words and meanings as you please.
    Fables
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Oscar Wilde I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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